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Re: Michael Steele wins RNC chairmanship race
« Reply #25 on: January 31, 2009, 03:58:29 PM »
Quote from: seeker_two on January 31, 2009, 03:14:52 PM
From the looks of things, I doubt they have much fight left. And, by looking at the age of the "GOP faithful" like McCain & Cheney, there won't be any left after 10 years...

Remember how they fought Goldwater. And Reagan. And Buchanan. And so forth.
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Re: Michael Steele wins RNC chairmanship race
« Reply #26 on: January 31, 2009, 06:19:16 PM »
I don't think Steele is necessarily a bad choice. The party needs to get off its dead ass and move forward. The GOP has managed to aggravate the very people who should be the core of its support. Thats why it is losing elections. Without that base of support, no party has a chance of winning. Democrats have been much better at putting together the internal coalitions that make winning possible.

On top of that, many core Republican vboters will penalize the party (mostly by staying home) when the party strays, or a party leader goes off the reservation (think what they did to Newt). Democrats by and large could care less if their leaders are satan themselves, as long as they win. Its a different mindset.

Republicans also tend to play things a lot straighter than democrats. The massive vote fraud democrats routinely engage in is not something republicans are going to want to do.
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Re: Michael Steele wins RNC chairmanship race
« Reply #27 on: January 31, 2009, 07:27:22 PM »
The issue isn't bringing ignored minorities into the party; the issue is appealing to the productive people in America.

McCain could have won this thing by wooing the middle class vigorously, especially the small business community.  Instead he babbled on senescently about earmarks and let Obama and Biden co-opt the middle class constituency.

The Republicans have a natural voting bloc: the people who pay taxes and save and invest and make businesses.  That is the only "tent" they need to be thinking about.

If they try to play the Dems' game they will be history by 2012.


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Re: Michael Steele wins RNC chairmanship race
« Reply #28 on: February 01, 2009, 05:15:00 AM »
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The GOP has managed to aggravate the very people who should be the core of its support.

And how will selecting a moderate (read: RINO) as the chairman of the national committee going to help that?

Also, serious questions to the political junkies of APS:

What is a DNC/RNC chairman for? I mean, how great is their influence really? Are they just figureheads or do they get to make real decisions? Is their power over the party greater or smaller than the formally elineated duties? What are the formally elineated duties?
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Re: Michael Steele wins RNC chairmanship race
« Reply #29 on: February 01, 2009, 10:40:49 AM »
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What is a DNC/RNC chairman for?


Mainly a figurehead, but even a figurehead sets the tone for the party.

Picking a liberal guy is not going to appeal to most people who might vote Republican.  And lets face it, the timing of choosing a token black man seems a little strange, considering that Obama just got elected.  It makes the Republicans look like they are thinking they need a black guy to be competitive.
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Re: Michael Steele wins RNC chairmanship race
« Reply #30 on: February 01, 2009, 10:53:23 AM »
They are not finished tripping over their own Political Correctness and Affirmative Action to be just like everybody wants them to be.

The power brokers are not publicized and likely unknown outside of those figureheads and those who put them there.
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Re: Michael Steele wins RNC chairmanship race
« Reply #31 on: February 01, 2009, 11:17:20 AM »
the job os the RNC chariman is to win elections. if steele is able to pull that off, he is a good choice. the chairman has very little to do with setting political policy. that happens when the candidates start to sort themselves out.
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Re: Michael Steele wins RNC chairmanship race
« Reply #32 on: February 01, 2009, 11:24:09 AM »
Quote from: lone_gunman on February 01, 2009, 10:40:49 AM
  And lets face it, the timing of choosing a token black man seems a little strange, considering that Obama just got elected.  It makes the Republicans look like they are thinking they need a black guy to be competitive.

That's what I was thinking.  "Hey, look.  We gots one o' them colored fellas, too!"   ;/
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Re: Michael Steele wins RNC chairmanship race
« Reply #33 on: February 01, 2009, 12:33:06 PM »
Bares more than a little resemblance to this scenario...

[Discussing how to counter Homer Stokes' campaign for governor]

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Pappy O'Daniel: Wouldn't we look like a bunch of Johnny-come-latelies, bragging on our own midget, doesn't matter how stumpy.
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Re: Michael Steele wins RNC chairmanship race
« Reply #34 on: February 02, 2009, 10:19:36 AM »
Afirmative Action should be cancelled now. We have a black man as president and a black man to chair the Republicans. Seems to me anything is obtainable now for anyone regardless of color, creed, sex, etc.



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Re: Michael Steele wins RNC chairmanship race
« Reply #35 on: February 02, 2009, 01:57:38 PM »
Quote from: Charby on February 02, 2009, 10:19:36 AM
Afirmative Action should be cancelled now. We have a black man as president and a black man to chair the Republicans. Seems to me anything is obtainable now for anyone regardless of color, creed, sex, etc.


I dunno, I still don't see any midgets on Capitol Hill.
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Re: Michael Steele wins RNC chairmanship race
« Reply #36 on: February 02, 2009, 04:38:49 PM »
Quote from: AZRedhawk44 on February 02, 2009, 01:57:38 PM
I dunno, I still don't see any midgets on Capitol Hill.

Wrong, we have hundreds of MENTAL midgets......
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Re: Michael Steele wins RNC chairmanship race
« Reply #37 on: February 02, 2009, 06:33:10 PM »
Quote from: scout26 on February 02, 2009, 04:38:49 PM
Wrong, we have hundreds of MENTAL midgets......

Many of which, have Napoleon complexes...
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Re: Michael Steele wins RNC chairmanship race
« Reply #38 on: February 03, 2009, 09:55:44 AM »
Quote from: Charby on February 02, 2009, 10:19:36 AM
Afirmative Action should be cancelled now. We have a black man as president and a black man to chair the Republicans. Seems to me anything is obtainable now for anyone regardless of color, creed, sex, etc.


Now we have an Amfrican American as the AG.

Now we can cancel Affirmative Action.

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Re: Michael Steele wins RNC chairmanship race
« Reply #39 on: February 04, 2009, 12:29:15 PM »
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Re: Michael Steele wins RNC chairmanship race
« Reply #40 on: February 04, 2009, 02:46:01 PM »
>To a real live woman, even<

I'm sorry, but you'll actually have to prove that one to us...  :laugh:
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Re: Michael Steele wins RNC chairmanship race
« Reply #41 on: February 04, 2009, 03:00:59 PM »
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We don't all wear wookie suits, I promise....

Others among us don't feel wookie suits are somehow bad. And I'm engaged. To another APS member of all things. :)
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Re: Michael Steele wins RNC chairmanship race
« Reply #42 on: February 05, 2009, 01:17:06 AM »
Quote from: MicroBalrog on February 04, 2009, 03:00:59 PM
And I'm engaged. To another APS member of all things. :)

Calling her a "thing" is not likely to win you many points...  :laugh:
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Re: Michael Steele wins RNC chairmanship race
« Reply #43 on: February 05, 2009, 08:19:57 AM »
Quote from: Strings on February 04, 2009, 02:46:01 PM
>To a real live woman, even<

I'm sorry, but you'll actually have to prove that one to us...  :laugh:

Would a picture of the two of us together suffice?  My wedding pics aren't online yet.
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Re: Michael Steele wins RNC chairmanship race
« Reply #44 on: February 05, 2009, 12:42:05 PM »
I suppose. But we'd have to take it on faith that it isn't a photoshop...

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Re: Michael Steele wins RNC chairmanship race
« Reply #45 on: February 06, 2009, 08:39:02 PM »
No other discussion of Steele cleaning house?

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